Where to eat foie gras in the Bay Area

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Diners enjoy foie gras dishes from the Little Chef Counter inside San Pedro Square Market in downtown San Jose, Calif. Sunday, March 25, 2012. California diners have less than 100 days to consume foie gras before a July 1 state ban on the controversial delicacy begins. Underground dinners — designed to keep protesters from playing spoiler — are being scheduled in San Jose, Redwood City and San Francisco in the coming days/weeks, and chefs are engaging in foie one-upmanship as they devise their wildly creative final menus. (Patrick Tehan/Staff)

Since Jan. 7, when the ban on selling foie gras in California was lifted, many Bay Area restaurants have been scrambling to fill more than two years of pent-up diner demand. Here are restaurants that managed to put it back on the menu quickly and others with plans to add foie dishes in the coming days and weeks. Know of others? Add to our Eat Drink Play blog or email us.

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